factory farm
a farm in which animals are bred and fattened using modern industrial methods
Derived forms of factory farm
- factory farming, noun
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How to use factory farm in a sentence
Further compounding the risk is the tremendous centralization of the factory farm system.
But I challenge any reader of this interview to get an invitation to a factory farm.
You see, this is a factory farm from fence to fence, except this forty which Polly bosses, and the utilitarian idea is on top.
The Fat of the Land | John Williams StreeterWhen I undertook the experiment of a factory farm, I placed the limit of capital to be invested at about $60,000.
The Fat of the Land | John Williams StreeterIt is not necessary to spend so much on a five-hundred-acre farm, and a factory farm need not contain so many acres.
The Fat of the Land | John Williams Streeter
Countless schemes at length resolved themselves into a factory farm, which should be a source of pleasure as well as of income.
The Fat of the Land | John Williams StreeterI began to talk about the hen plant, and have wandered to my favorite fad,—the factory farm.
The Fat of the Land | John Williams Streeter
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